UPDATE: As many of our readers reported, this trick does not actually work. Also, HTC contacted us to say that its engineering team could not replicate the issue and determined that the ROM used in ...

Attackers are able to bypass the lock screen on the Samsung Galaxy Note II smartphone, a device that the Korean electronics giant is pitching to enterprise customers. First discovered by ...

As Abraham Lincoln famously said, "don't trust everything you read on the Internet." Yesterday I reported on an apparent bug that allowed people to bypass pattern lock screen on the HTC One M9 just by ...

A judge has approved a subpoena that asks Google to provide a wide range of Android cellphone data, including subscription information, web and GPS history, and instructions for overriding the phone’s ...

One of the ways to protect your smartphone from the prying eyes of others is to set a secure lockscreen; be it with the PIN, pattern, or password lock. But then again, they might not be good enough if ...

Google has paid out $70,000 to a security researcher for privately reporting an "accidental" security bug that allowed anyone to unlock Google Pixel phones without knowing its passcode. The lock ...